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III. Smalltalk 4-Aug-2009 (3min) between President Obama and WH Press Corps member Helen Thomas via C-SPAN, (1:30 +text) [|via CBS] =====

A shared birthday wish; real health care reform bill, cash for clunkers $2B (not million)
How to start a clunker (0:38) prejudice

II. Sports Songs: Washington Redskins football team III. Whole Foods Market in Baltimore 24-Mar-2010: surprise opera (4min) [|via WashNatOpera], (3:30) [|via BaltimoreSun] Humor in Farsi: 20-Apr-2008 citizenship interview (5min) via IranianSchoolSD fall of saigon: April 1975Britich [] [] too noisy V. [|Jose Cuervo is a friend of mine] pronunciation of **v**, **th** (both kinds), **p lyrics **

Sports in the News: NY City Marathon [] ([|7 Nov 2010] ) 3M people?

IV. The Oxford pronunciation via http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/Orthography+is+Great ignores the popular American use, as in this (31 Mar 2009) singing of "Scarborough Fair. words with __**ough**__ regional contractions in Woddy Allen's Annie Hall III. No. I don't know what time it is. [] []  via youtube (2:55 ) Great White Way Orchestra (with photo montage and lyrics) | (3:40 ) Green Bros. Orchestra (with 1903 film) | (<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">3:20 ) Spike Jones

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(VIII) Accent on American politicians born abroad: From Austria and California, @Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] from wikipedia Born February 1, 1928 as **Lantos Tamás Péter** ( Hungarian pronunciation: <span class="IPA" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL','Doulos SIL',Gentium,GentiumAlt,'DejaVu Sans',Code2000,'TITUS Cyberbit Basic','Arial Unicode MS','Lucida Sans Unicode','Chrysanthi Unicode';"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|[ˈlɒntoʃ ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈpeːtɛr] ]  ) to a<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Jewish] family in <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Budapest] ,<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Hungary], Lantos was part of a <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|resistance movement] against the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Nazis] during the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|German occupation of Hungary]. <span style="font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Member of the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|U.S. House of Representatives] ** <span style="font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**from <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|California] 's <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|11th and 12th] district** <span style="font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In office **January 5, 1981 – February 11, 2008**

(Farsi and English,)**swearing-in ceremony** ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0033cc; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">[|**Jimmy Delshad's** installment as the Mayor of Beverly Hills] ** === <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.91em; height: auto; line-height: 1.2; margin: 3px 0px 5px; max-height: 2.4em; outline-width: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; 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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] **Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad** (<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Persian] : جیمی دلشاد) is an <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Iranian-American] [|politician] in the state of <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|California]. He became<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Mayor] of <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Beverly Hills] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|[1] ] on March 21, 2007 and again on March 16, 2010.

<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] English "year in review" listen for extra syllables; th, intonation "su-wer" "ed-u-ca-shan" "minoridis" <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[]

<span style="color: #1b703a; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In the Bay Area, this included Iranian Americans serving in local government: San Francisco Supervisor <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Ross Mirkarimi] and Brisbane Mayor Sepi Richardson. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] [] 1 minute speech

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